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Daily Archives: March 19, 2009

That is all the Rutgers women’s team needs to erase all the disappointment, all the frustration and the underachievement that has so far been this basketball season.

Recent history suggests they will.

Over the past five years Rutgers has finished out seasons with an overall record of 50-11. And that’s with this year’s current five-out-of-seven stretch.

Two wins this weekend and Rutgers returns to the Sweet 16. Two wins and it will have accomplished something it could not have even imagined just one month ago. And a spot in this year’s Sweet 16 would be the sweetest of all.

“”I’ll be really blunt with you here,” she finally said. “”I’m just trying to figure out how to beat Lehigh right now.””

On paper, the No.‚2 seed in the Oklahoma City Regional should be able to do that by just walking on the basketball court. But you know what they say about paper.

Lehigh will bring its tiny pack of matches to the Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway on Saturday at noon, a No.‚15 seed that will try and play bracket-buster for Monday’s second-round game.

The host, No.‚7 seed Rutgers, will face No.‚10 seed Virginia Commonwealth after the Auburn-Lehigh game. Both games will be on ESPN2.

Auburn, ranked eighth in the country with a record of 29-3, started the season 20-0 and won the Southeastern Conference’s regular-season title. It lost to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament championship game.

The Tigers have the SEC’s Player of the Year in 6-foot-4 senior guard DeWanna Bonner, and another guard, Whitney Boddie, who leads the country in assists.

Lehigh has its own Player of the Year in sophomore guard Erica Prosser, and the Mountain Hawks, 26-6, won the Patriot League Tournament.

Abe Rosen sits at his kitchen table wearing a Rutgers sweater over a red T-shirt from a Final Four. His jeans are well-worn and his black shoes are as comfortable as his smile.

If you want to know how good a player Homer Hazel was on that 1924 Rutgers football team, he can tell you. If you want to know how good Sandy Tupurins was as a freshman on the 1975-76 women’s team, he can tell you.

When you’ve lived 95 years, chances are you have a few memories.

A 1931 graduate of New Brunswick High School, he saw his first Rutgers football game in 1924 at Nelson Field. He watched his first Rutgers women’s basketball game at the College Avenue Gym in 1974.

Saturday he will be at the Louis Brown Athletic Center to watch his beloved Scarlet Knights play in the opening round of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

He likely would have been a Rutgers grad had it not been for the depression. And he might hear better if not for the explosion of World War II.

Prospects are able to sign letters of intent beginning Wednesday. Per a new rule last season, college football programs are able to accept National Letters of Intent (NLIs) during an early signing period for three days in December. These NLIs are a binding commitment between school and individual. In 2018, this period begins Wednesday December […]

The former Scarlet Knight rushed for over 100 yards for the third time in his past five games Gus Edwards has paved an unlikely path from undrafted free agent to making the practice squad to becoming the starting running back for the Baltimore Ravens, all since this past April. After having a productive final season […]